Creator Bio
Ronald Segal
1932–2008
The author and publisher Ronald Segal was deeply involved with the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, writing, lecturing, fighting in the courts, and accepting exile as the cost of his activism. Born into affluence in South Africa, he used his family’s wealth and his own inexhaustible energy to defend Nelson Mandela and champion an economic boycott of the apartheid regime. Through his magazine, Africa South, and the Penguin African Library, he brought international attention to the continent of his birth.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Apartheid and South African Jewry: An Exchange
South African Jews are forever conscious of injustice, but of the injustice that they alone are made to suffer. They quickly grow furious over the treatment of Israel, the power politics…
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The Zulu and the Zeide
Harry was the only person who knew that he and his father had quarrelled shortly before the accident that ended the old man’s life took place; this was something that Harry was to keep secret for the…